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* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
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* Albert Austin ( 1881 – 1953 ), British / American actor
77, No. 3 ( Sep., 1953 ), pp. 148 – 155.
* 1881 – Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete ( d. 1953 )
* 1953 – Christopher Franke, German musician and composer ( Tangerine Dream )
* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.
* 1953 – Merrill Osmond, American actor and singer ( The Osmonds )
* 1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Rush and Big Dirty Band )
* 1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish actor, director, and playwright
* 1953 – Pope Pius XII establishes the Dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport and makes the Diocese of Hartford an archdiocese.
* 1953 – Iqbal Qasim, Pakistani cricketer
* 1953 – Kay Stenshjemmet, Norwegian speed skater
* 1953 – Roberta Tovey, English actress and singer
The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.
* 1953 – Marjo, Canadian singer-songwriter ( Corbeau )
* 1953 – Donnie Munro, Scottish singer and guitarist ( Runrig )
* 1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor
Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.
* 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
* 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist
* 1953 – Ian Bairnson, Scottish musician ( Keats )
Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.
* 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author ( d. 1953 )
* 1953 – Mark Lazarowicz, English Politician
1953 and coronation
Mountbatten attended the funeral of King George VI in June 1952 and, having been promoted to the substantive rank of full admiral on 27 February 1953, he attended the coronation of the Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.
He composed Gloriana ( 1953 ) for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to celebrate the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
It was anticipated that the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 would lead to the creation of a city, and Wolverhampton, Preston and Southampton made approaches.
In 1953, the School created the gold embroidery on the Purple Robe of Estate, part of the coronation robes of Queen Elizabeth II.
Petula Clark released a recording of it in 1953 to coincide with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and despite neither making the charts, both versions were popular on BBC radio's Children's Favourites programme.
Uxbridge Borough Council installed a three-sided clock commemorating the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II in the library's tower, having been persuaded not to add it to the eight-sided village pump.
* The Doctor Who episode " The Idiot's Lantern " was based around Muswell Hill, set during Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.
This image of the crown was taken prior to the 1953 coronation, when the crown was modified for Queen Elizabeth II
Howes commended Bliss's Processional for the 1953 coronation, and A Song of Welcome, Bliss's first official pièce d ' occasion.
A complete 7-hour set of telerecordings of Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation also exists.
A short section of this footage was used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives.
She attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953 and later represented the Queen at the independence celebrations of Trinidad and Tobago in 1962, and Zambia in 1964.
It was used by Walton Sound and Film Services in the UK in 1953 for the official 16 mm film of the coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
As premier, Douglas attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.
The Duke attended the coronation of his niece, Elizabeth II in 1953.
However, it is the European coronation ceremonies, most specifically that used in Great Britain ( the last of which occurred in 1953 ), that are perhaps best known to most Westerners.
He provided commentary for the coronation of King George VI in 1937 and again in 1953 for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
However, crowns were usually struck in a new monarch's coronation year, true of each monarch since George IV up until the present monarch in 1953, with the single exception of George V.
Shorter choral works written around this time include the carol-anthem Long long ago ( 1951 ), the introit Behold O God our Defender for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and The House of the Mind ( 1954 ) for chorus and strings.
In 1953, he attended the coronation of his cousin, Elizabeth II, paying homage at her throne after her crowning ( following the Dukes of Edinburgh and Gloucester ).
The diamond and pearl Kent Festoon Tiara was worn by Princess Marina to the 1953 coronation.
In 1953, Prince William attended the coronation of his cousin, Elizabeth II.
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